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quasi-normalcy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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meariver<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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huntokar<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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quasi-normalcy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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No, I\u2019m serious, if women all got together and went into electrical engineering or automotive repair en masse, then ten years later people would be talking about how it was a \u201csoft field\u201d and it would pay proportionately less than other fields.<\/p>\n

Likewise, if men moved en masse to bedeck themselves in sparkles and make-up, then suddenly you\u2019d get a bunch of editorials talking about how classy they look.<\/p>\n

None of these things are inherently masculine or feminine; none of these things inherently elevate you or drag you down. But whatever women are seen to do is automatically seen as being inherently more frivolous than anything men do. And shaming women for not pigeonholing themselves into a narrow range of acceptable \u201cmasculine\u201d behaviours is just going to result in the goalposts getting moved once again.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is literally what happened to basically every field women have entered. The opposite happens when men enter. Computers used to be a \u201cwoman thing\u201d until the guys who did it got really mad about how badly their job was viewed and realized they could fix it by forcing out women. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Also happened\/ is happening with the fields of biology and psychology\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I honestly wonder how much of the backlash against public education in the last generation has been due to teaching becoming a woman-dominated profession.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fashion used to be a men\u2019s thing. Then women got involved in the late 17\/1800\u2019s, so men went the other way because it came to be seen as \u201cfrivolous\u201d and \u201canti-intellectual\u201d to care about how you looked. Add in the homophobia that arose around that time, bam, staid bland dress. Ditto leggings\/tights, that are now called attention-whoring when on men they were required to show you cared about your figure and had the money to pay for such a fitted item.\u00a0<\/p>\n

People want to say misogyny doesn\u2019t exist, that male privilege doesn\u2019t exist. Look beyond \u201cliving memory\u201d and you\u2019ll find that\u2019s what drives the \u201cinexplicable reversals\u201d society seems to make on many things. Hell, just look beyond your own society, and you\u2019ll find out that what\u2019s considered \u201cfor men\u201d elsewhere is held in high esteem while here it\u2019s scoffed at purely because it\u2019s \u201cfor women\u201d:\u00a0<\/p>\n